Mail-bag deliverer.



Tm 'fif A'-NTED AER. '7, 1908, E. F. MAIL RAG DELVEFLBR.

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JoHN r. BLACK, or esneussune, rENNsYLvANIA To all 'whom it mayvconcern.' i

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Be it known that I, JOHN F. BLACK, a citi- 'I zen of the United StatesofAmerica, and resithe positions they Y simiple and practical means forde nected to the upper l vranged'at r1 ht anglesto each other and dentof Greensburgi county of Westmoreland,

State .of Pennsylvania, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvementsin Mail-Ba' -Deliverers, of which the following is a fullv and clearspecification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a postal car andthe adjacent roadbed showing my apparatus in position Jfor delivering amail-bag- Fig. 2 is a view partiy in vertical section and partly in sideelevation of the delivering apparatus detached and ready .for deliveringa bag. Fig.- 3 isa front elevation of the same showing the parts inassume just after the bag is delivered. Fig. 4 a plan view of Fig. 2

artly in section on the line 4%4 of Fig. 2.

ig. 5 is a detail view of the tripping lever. Fig. 6 is a verticallongitudinal `section of the receiving. rece tacle on the roadbed, thecover being li ted to position for receiving the delivered bag. F1 Vis avertical section on the line 747 o Fig. 6.

The object 'of this invention is to rovide ivering ma -bags Jfrom arapidly moving train to the stations along the road. Object to provide asim` receiving receptacle a( into the roadbed adjacent to the track andto automatically close upon the reception of the delivered bag. l

Referring to the drawings by reference characters, a, designates a'standard upon which the working parts of the delivering A device aremounted, this standard being removably mounted in a suitablekeeper bfastened to the edge of the car iioor coinciden-t with the door of thecar. Pivotally con- It also has for its le and practical bagleverlcomposed of a-pair of arms c c and a handle portion d, the parts'd and cbeing ari being pivote at their juncture to a suitable piate e fastenedVrotatably upon the floor of the car midway the width of thecar. -Bymeans of this right angle lever arrangement the delivering apparatus maybe let down into 'the keeper in position for action and may be hoistedup out of the keeper and swung back into the car, the standard a alwaysremainin in a vertieal'position by reason of its pivota apted to besunkeny end of the standard is aA :settimaV apra "f, isos.

connection tothe arms c` c. By rotatably mounting the liftingapparatuson the floor at e the apparatus may be swung around to aconvenient position within the car and may also bejproj'ected outthrough the opposite'.

door of' the car to""deliver mail-ba s at that side of the'car, aduplicate of ti beinv fastened on the opposite edge of the car oor.

, v Attached to thevface ofthe standard ais a` vertical stationary tubef and projecting from thepupp'er ends of the standard and said tube '1sanother rigid tube or bar g, and' mounted' rigidlyon the outer end ofthisbar gis a verV vtical plate ordisk Pivotally' mounted onv the faceof the v v to swing in a verticalv planeand connected at its lower endby a link j to a rearwardly ointing hook pivotally mounted on the ace ofthe plate 7L at a point above thel pivot of the lever t.

e keeper plate h is a trip lever/i adapted Concentric with the pivot ofthe levert on.'

its inner side 1s 'a cam groove Zinto which; through a hole'in the plateh, extends a rodjm which extends along above and parallelfwith ner endwith a vertical pawl n, this pawl bei` l l the bar g and isjpivotallyconnectedlat its in# ing pivoted at its lower end to an ear on the iback of the standard a and' being pressedoutwardly, that is, toward thelate h by means of a s ring o, this awl being confined and guide bymeans o a pair of lugs pon the back of plate a. Y

Extending-.upward thrdugh the tube f is' a4v shaft qu'p'on the upper endof whichis mount- 1 ed 'a cam r which is provided with anotch s in.

its curved inner edge for the receptionof the pawl n' whenthe apparatusyisset forde'liver.- I

mg the bag. A spring i normally tends to throwl this/bam and its shaftbackwardlyz' Attached tothe lower end of shaft@` at a f is al.

point belowf" the lower end of tube I weighted arm u which is pivoted toshaft gon a transverse horizontal u and at' its other end is a curvedpivot u. Carried at 1 one end 'of this arm uis an upstanding weight.

w which is so located withwreference tothe i hook 7c that when a bag ishung on said hook,`

this arm w will form lower end of the suspended-bag, 'as-shown inFig. 1. (ln the arm u is formed an upwardly extending stop which 4byreasen of the weight u normallv bears upwardzy against the underside ofavflange fj carried rigidly on the lower end of tube this-fiange being arest or stop for the-5"" 10o arm or rod semi-circular in shape, thestraight edge thereof facing inwardly toward the standard a.

f In the roadbedadjacent t the track is sunken a box A provided with abottom B near its upper edge. .i Pivoted at the rear end of this box isa coverC provided with de l pending wings D which work down throughslots in the bottom B. Hinged to the underA side of the cover C, aboutmidway its length, is a 4prop E, whichworks through a lhole in thebottom B and is notched at F to enable it to rest upon the front edge ofthe hole in the botl angularly turned so as to `be struck b`yaftrip tomand thus pr'op up the cover. Fastened to the top of the cover androjecting forwardly therefrom is a bar G W ose forwardfend is lever 'ias the train passes. It will be ob served that the prop E tends to swingfor wardly when the cover is raised so as to autoprop into place overthe box thereby confining and i 25 matically prop the cover 1n itsraised position. When the mail-bag is delivered into the ofpn'front ofthe receptacle it strikes the i and thus permits the cover to dropprotecting the bag against the weather until the local agent removes thesame.

I prefer hanging the bag on the hook lc by meansfof a short piece ofrope having a ring at its upper edge to engage over the hook and a'snaphook at its lower end to engage the ring or strapon the bag.- Then the aparatus is set for delivering the bagit be observed that the lever tstands u wardly in position to be struck by bar G an the cam r 1s lockedby pawl n in such position as to hold the steadying arm w in itsextended position so that the bag will rest against'it.

-As soon as lever t is tripped backwardly the camA groove Z and rod mrelease pawlmJ from cam r, thus permitting the s ring t to swing cam rand its shaft aronn backwardly a quarter turn, when the projection r oncam r will strike against the pawl n and will stop the further movementof the cam and its shaft. The rotation of shaft q carries the bag rest wbackwardly out of the way of the bag, and after the shaft is turnedabout a ,quarter turn the stop a; passes off the inner straight edge ofcam y and thus permits the weightfuf` to swing downwardly as shown inFig. 3, and this action swings the steadying arm upwardl bac'k of thetubular standard f where it wil be 'out .of the way.

opposite side doors, of a kee erat the sill of each4 door,- a mail.- bagde ivering device adapted to slide upwardly or downwardly in either oneof these keepers, and ashftable lifting and lowering device connected tothe delivering device and mounted on the floor of the car at a pointbetween the two doors thereof.

3'. In combination with a car having a keeper secured'to its door'sill,a mail-bag delivering device adapted to be lowered into said keeper andto be raised out of the same, and means mounted on the floor' 'of thecar for raising and lowerin said delivering device and drawing it bacinto the car.

4. The roadbed receiving-receptacle for mail-bags consisting of a box, acover 'pivoted at its rear end and adapted to swing u wardly, af proppivotally attached to t e cover and'depending into the box, a support'for this prop at its lower end, this prop eing located in the path lofthe delivered 'bag whereby the injection of the bagwill dislodge theprop and permit the cover to close.

5. A mail-bag receiving receptacle com" prising a box, a cover therefor,means for )ropping u the cover,l said means being located wit in the boxin the` path of the incoming bag, whereby the movement of the deliveredbag after it enters the receptacle will close the door thereof.

6. In a mail-bag delivering apparatus, a

frame, a suspending hook and means for tripping the same, a steadyingarm and .means for automatically swinging the same back out of the waywhen the tripping device is operated.

7. In a mail-bag delivering apparatus, the` combination of a frame, asuspending hook and a trip device therefor, a steadying arm mounted u ona vertical pivot below the suspendingook, means for` normally swingingthis steadying arm backwardl out of the way, and means for automatica] yreleasing said means upon the release of the bag.

8. In an apparatus of the class set forth, the combination of a frame, asuspending hook and means for tripping the same, a weighted ivotedsteadying arm adapted to engage beliind the bag, and means forautomatically swinging the steadying arm back wardly and releasingA it`when the bag is tripped from its suspending" hook, whereby thesteadying arm will swing upwardly out of the wa y 9. In an apparatus ofthe class set forth, the combination of a frame, a suspending hook andmeans. for tripping it, a vertical shaft carrying on a transverse pivotat its lower end a steadying arm, this arm being provided with a weightnormally tending to swing it wardly,1means for holding the arm horizontaly, al cam and normally swing the arm ackwardly, and

Ei'in'g A tending to means for releasing the cam when the suscarried bythe projected end of said lifting pending hook is tripped. device.

10. In an apparatus of the class set'forth, In testimon wheredf Ihereunto aix my a' car having o posite side-door-Ways, a base signaturein t e presence of tw'o Witnesses' 5 plate mounte to rotate on avertical pivot this 21 day of Oct., 1907.

In the car floor between the two doorwa s, a v

lifting device mounted to oscillate on a ori- JOHN F BLACK zontal pivotcarried by this plate so as to Witnesses: adapt it to be projected outthrough either WILLIAM R. SLIFER, y

15 doorway, and a mail-bag-hnlfling device EDWIN F. CRWFORD.

